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Our approach to the equalities strategy is to mainstream as much as possible, but lived experience is crucial to the design of services to ensure that they hit the mark.
History shows that the disastrous consequence of national building programmes that distribute funding from the centre with no priority for wider action is houses that no one wants to live in and which we have to demolish.
Developing that approach would also allow patients to have a health service that suits their lives—for example, it would enable elective surgery outwith people’s working hours.
We had a real opportunity to change lives in a place that has lagged behind the rest of Scotland for a long period, in spite of great efforts over a long time.
The next question would be, “How do you define a home?” If someone lives there once every two years or has not lived there for five years, is it still their home?